Maori don't vote ACT, they don't want to stand for ACT and they definitely don't want to be associated with Don Brash.

We reckon a lot more vote National now but thats cos National has frilly pink knickers on these days.

In fact Brash is so hated that Willie Apiata could be #1 on the ACT list and Maori still wouldn't vote ACT. Instead they would just lift their skirts or drop their trous and give Brash a look see at the hairy brown eyeball.

So in the interests of political enlightenment I gave Cactus a call about the Brash's latest stunt. I wanted to know what she thought about Brash hugging the crap out of Apirana Ngata's tombstone.

Ngata died in 1950 so he's Brash's perfect Maori running mate for ACT. He can't talk back cos he is dead. He wont tell Brash he is wrong and we know Brash likes being associated with Brown people - his wife is Asian and as Winston Peters reckons Asians are just Maori who stayed north of the equator. So Brash the living cadaver - wants to resurrect the corpse of the great man and because Brash has made so many cock ups -a dead person is all he has left to offer up as a candidate.

Cactus has been prickly lately because she's having to say "no comment" to journos. When Cactus refuses to comment on issues we are pretty sure it means she is livid.

I've known Cactus long enough to be one of the few people in the world with permission to call her before 10am. So I did and told her of Brash's latest stroking of Ngata's tombstone. "Too fucking busy" was her muted answer.The ungrateful bitch hung up in my ear.

We suspect in Dorothy Parker fashion that in fact she aint busy unless you count finding nubile men to entertain her at 2am in the morning as busy.

Brash claims Ngata would be Leader of ACT if he was alive today.

Cactus I know can't comment but reckon she will be all alone in a foetal position clutching a teddy bear for comfort in response to this latest fuckwittery by Brash.

Brash is right - to a point - Ngata loathed the fact that Maori had become addicted to welfare. He did believe in self reliance but he also had some pretty lefty views as Michael Bassett points out in his review of Ranginui Walkers book on Ngata.

Yes good post. brash has shown us how low some people will go - and it's very low indeed. The gnats have done the deal in Epsom, so I expect brash to be back after the election - things will get even nastier then.

Dr Brash won't get with a bulls roar of finance and he'll be left to twiddle his thumbs on the sidelines. There is no way National is going to allow any serious fiscal influence to be held by a person who has been deemed accurately as 'an extremist.'

Well adolf I disagree - the deal will be the deal and within that will be plenty of devils. I'd put $2 on brash getting a significant ministerial post after the election - assuming that Epsom aren't sick of being treated like a bad joke, that is.

You have a race based Maori Political party, special Maori only parliamentary seats and Maori can stand as a candidatein any parliamentary electorate in New Zealand but whitepeople cannot stand for a Maori seat or be on the Maori roll or a member of the Maori Party. You have ‘3 bites at the same electoral cherry’. White people have only one and yet you still say you are dis-advantaged. If I complain you call me a red neck racist.

You have a race based Maori caucus in parliament whichincludes the Maori members from all parties. It concerns itself with protecting and advancing Maori values, not partypolitical values. If whites or any other ethnic group had a multi party parliamentary caucus that dealt with the advancementof its own race or for whites only, and not politics we would be called racist.

You also want to appoint your own representation on Local bodies and demand the granting of special seats or privilege. If not granted you scream racism. Yet Maori can be elected just the same as any person from any race. If there were seats on any local body that were just for whites only there would be great cries of racism.

You have a flag of your own, which you insist be recognised and flown alongside the flag of our country.This illustrates your separateness and division from the rest of New Zealanders. If a white person flew and demanded recognition of a competitive flag for New Zealand, it would be tantamount to Treason.

There are a number of openly proclaimed Maori schools and Colleges in New Zealand. Maori colleges and high schools specifically for Maori students. Yet if there were 'Whites Only colleges', they would be racist colleges.If whites had scholarships, college funds and Trusts that only gave white students Scholarships, you know they’d be racists.

You expect whites and other New Zealanders to ignore your special tax payer funded educational institutions and when we complain or say you should teach your language and culture in the home as other races do you call us racists.

Who pays for the running of Maori colleges? If whites objected to their taxes going to pay for them they would be called racist. If white people had their own schools and colleges they would be called elitist racists

You have Government funded race based Kohango Reo’s [pre-schools] to teach your race your own language and even have transport to pick the children up. If any other race asked for the taxpayer to fund the teaching of only their own language, or transport to take their children to pre-school they would be laughed at and called racist.

You have Maori Health Services. Special organisations within the taxpayer funded public health system which are run by Maori for only Maori. If whites asked for suchspecial and separatist privileges from the health services they would be racists.

You have a Maori TV channel funded by the New Zealander taxpayer. If there was a Whites only TV or if whites said Maori should fund their own TV, they would be called racists.

You also have your own Te Reo TV channel which broadcasts solely in Maori. Of the 14 free to air Freeview TV channels Maori have two of them and yet there are also Maori language programs and news on the main network channels such as TV One and TVNZ 7. If we consider that an over representation of a language that the rest of us don’t want to learn, we are called racists.

If we had any organisations, schools, trusts, and governmental groups TV stations, etc for whites only to advance OUR lives, we'd be racists.

A white woman cannot be Maori sportswoman of the year, but any race can be New Zealand sportswoman of the year. A white person cannot be in the Maori All blacks or any Maori sporting team, but any colour can be in the All Blacks or any New Zealand sports team. This separatism is decidedly racist but if a white person comments on it they are labelled racist... The fact that we have a Maori Allblack team is as racist as is any race based sports team can be but if there was a whites only Allblack team or any other whites only sports team it would be considered blatantly racist.

You say the whites commit as much violence as you do. So why are the Maori parts of town the most dangerous places to live? Why are the jails so full of Maori?Why are so many children killed and bashed by Maori.But when I say that Maori are a violent people you call me a racist.

You rob us, convert our cars, rape our women and bash our elderly. But, if a white police officer shoots a Maori or a Maori gang member, or assaults a Maori criminal running from the law and posing a threat to society, you scream racism.

You are proud to be Maori and you're not afraid to announce it, even though you may not be full Maori, but part Maori, or even only ‘trace element’ Maori, but when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.Why is it that only whites can be racists?

There is nothing improper about this e-mail. It’s all true and illustrates that it’s time we started to pressure all politicians to eliminate special race based privilege and parliamentary seats based on race.

Stop giving Maori special privilege and treat them the same as any white person, Chinese, Asian, Indian or Pacific Islander..

There are many races that live in New Zealand, all were alien initially, now there are many minorities and if we don’t learn to stand up and stop privilege being accorded to any one particular group, the next group to start wanting separatist rules, favouritism and privilege will be alien religious groups.

The great gravy train, a.k.a the Waitangi grievance Industry, has hopefully nearly finished it's work of judging events of 160 years ago through today’s eyes and making compensation awards in today’s money so now is the time to stop and ask: Do we want a privileged group enjoying special favour for no rational reason, or do we want racial equality in New Zealand with fairness and equal privilege for all.

There is nothing improper about this e-mail......... so let's see which of you care enough to send it on.Think about this ... If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone – THEN YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM!

Where do you start in replying to Anon 21 July. It's staggering that flat earthers like him/her still exist in this day and age. I could write a list as long rebutting everything he/she said. But I've got better things to do. I advise we not make any sudden movements or loud noises eh. And Anon 21 July - keep finger painting on the walls alright.

Didn't Ranginui Walker write that the Maori concept of future was to look behind (muri), on the basis that human interactions tend to repeat so the future although unknown is more likely to be seen from the past (mua)?

Anon: the Keha in Pa-keha means pale skin.

The justification for 4 Maori seats in 1867 was that Maori as landowners deserved representation in Parliament like every other landowner. The injustice element is argued in that the amount of land or population if proportionately derived should have nearer to 40 seats. Indeed things have reversed today and Maori are over represented in proportionality in Parliament, because of the Maori seats. So some would argue that the imbalance or over representation now is a form of redress for failure to treat representation on equal terms in 1867.

Anon Part 1 and 2- go back to your 6 pack of DB or whatever, or what you smoke. The reality is that we are just seeing the really dark side of MMP. Political parties are becoming quite sophisticated in using or abusing MMP to their own ends rather than the needs of the wider electorate. Southern boy, David Parker, is joining the the Epsom race, just to put votes on the board for Labour and his own security. Let us hope Epsom will be a demonstration that MMP is not the political voting system we needRichard

Doesn't matter about just being a sensible and decent person does it?Nope, gotta be a maori first.Unbelievable attitude really, appalling when I really think about it. My race never crosses my mind. You lot have it in the front of all your thinking.Now give me any example from history where institutional racial or ethnic (for marty) division/privilege has had a positive outcome for humanity.Martin Luther King would be an ACT member as well if he were alive.

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